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	<title>Comments on: Republicans more likely to be wrong about Universe, but not by much</title>
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	<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/25/republicans-more-likely-to-be-wrong-about-universe-but-not-by-much/</link>
	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Bakula</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/25/republicans-more-likely-to-be-wrong-about-universe-but-not-by-much/comment-page-3/#comment-171286</link>
		<dc:creator>Bakula</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How are you. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I am from Verde and now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: &quot;Cheap airline tickets, wwairtickets is the travel planning and flight booking site.&quot;

With best wishes :p, Bakula.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How are you. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.<br />
I am from Verde and now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: &#8220;Cheap airline tickets, wwairtickets is the travel planning and flight booking site.&#8221;</p>
<p>With best wishes :p, Bakula.</p>
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		<title>By: Thermond</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thermond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert, you accuse strawman and then comback with the same thing. Not too smart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert, you accuse strawman and then comback with the same thing. Not too smart.</p>
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		<title>By: Thermond</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thermond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert Says: 
June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm 

&lt;i&gt;Where do you find that anyone in Christianity, or the theological community, dismisses entire sectors of science?&lt;/i&gt;

My own Christian brother dismisses any science that threatens his creationist view.

&lt;i&gt; Unlike athiests and scientists that dismiss anything Christian without any consideration whatsoever - truly the definition of ignorance, just as your argument is truly the definition of a straw man.&lt;/i&gt;

Your assertion is the ultimate strawman. Actually many atheists spent years as believing Christians and are quite knowledgeable about Christianity. There are many atheists that consider things Christian for whatever reason. Now do they then dismiss them? Probably, but it is not just out of hand as your strawman implies. Considering and accepting are not the same thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert Says:<br />
June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm </p>
<p><i>Where do you find that anyone in Christianity, or the theological community, dismisses entire sectors of science?</i></p>
<p>My own Christian brother dismisses any science that threatens his creationist view.</p>
<p><i> Unlike athiests and scientists that dismiss anything Christian without any consideration whatsoever &#8211; truly the definition of ignorance, just as your argument is truly the definition of a straw man.</i></p>
<p>Your assertion is the ultimate strawman. Actually many atheists spent years as believing Christians and are quite knowledgeable about Christianity. There are many atheists that consider things Christian for whatever reason. Now do they then dismiss them? Probably, but it is not just out of hand as your strawman implies. Considering and accepting are not the same thing.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Young Girls Young Girl Models Young Puffy Nipple</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view</p>
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		<title>By: world's fastest indian</title>
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		<dc:creator>world's fastest indian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I Googled for something completely different, but found your page&#8230;and have to say thanks. nice read.</p>
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		<title>By: quasidog</title>
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		<dc:creator>quasidog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um ... one of my posts has been deleted ?   But you left the edit for my post there.  Why ?  Did I say something offensive ? I don&#039;t get it.    

If you are going to delete a post of mine, could you please email me and let me know why ?  It can be a short 10 second email.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um &#8230; one of my posts has been deleted ?   But you left the edit for my post there.  Why ?  Did I say something offensive ? I don&#8217;t get it.    </p>
<p>If you are going to delete a post of mine, could you please email me and let me know why ?  It can be a short 10 second email.</p>
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		<title>By: The Centipede</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Centipede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;At least Canadians have a conception of human rights which they are trying to implement (however poorly). You Americans are still stuck with the primitive notions of natural rights and property rights. Which explains why we have the obscene situation of the USA being the only country in the world (apart from that right-libertarian paradise, Somalia) not to have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Oh, I get it.  When we try to force our abstract concepts and ideals on other people via argument, we&#039;re being backwards, primitive, closed-minded, and, of course, imperialistic.  When the same&#039;s done the other way, though...

Yes, let&#039;s ban certain ideas, because that&#039;s sure to make them go away, rather than just fester in the corners where polite society doesn&#039;t look and become stronger from the evolutionary driver of oppression rather than being exposed for the canards and idiocies they are in a free marketplace of ideas.  Perhaps there&#039;s a reason why neo-Nazi movements are more violent in Europe (and Israel, of all places) than they are in the States...?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>At least Canadians have a conception of human rights which they are trying to implement (however poorly). You Americans are still stuck with the primitive notions of natural rights and property rights. Which explains why we have the obscene situation of the USA being the only country in the world (apart from that right-libertarian paradise, Somalia) not to have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, I get it.  When we try to force our abstract concepts and ideals on other people via argument, we&#8217;re being backwards, primitive, closed-minded, and, of course, imperialistic.  When the same&#8217;s done the other way, though&#8230;</p>
<p>Yes, let&#8217;s ban certain ideas, because that&#8217;s sure to make them go away, rather than just fester in the corners where polite society doesn&#8217;t look and become stronger from the evolutionary driver of oppression rather than being exposed for the canards and idiocies they are in a free marketplace of ideas.  Perhaps there&#8217;s a reason why neo-Nazi movements are more violent in Europe (and Israel, of all places) than they are in the States&#8230;?</p>
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